NATO: Iran, Russia, China and North Korea are working together

“We have focused on defensive costs,” NATO’s secretary -general Mark Route said in a statement in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital. We know that Iran, Russia, China and North Korea are working together; Russia has long been a threat to NATO.

NATO leaders have expressed concern about the strategic partnership of Tehran-Moscow’s strategic partnership and expansion by claiming Iran’s military support for Russia in the Ukrainian war.

Rejecting this claim, Iranian officials have called Tehran and Moscow military cooperation within the framework of bilateral defense relations and unrelated to the Ukrainian war.

Tehran has emphasized that despite the apparent military intervention of Western Kiev’s allies, Tehran has not supported any of the parties to the war and has repeatedly announced its readiness to help a political process to resolve the conflict.

Russian officials also denied claiming the use of Iranian drones in the Ukrainian war, stressing that, unlike Kiev, which relies on its Western supporters, Moscow uses weapons of domestic defense production.

Lithuanian National Radio and Television reported that Route said that members of the Western military coalition had to agree at their next meeting in the Hague over the commitment to increase defense costs.

Rate has traveled to the Lithuanian capital to attend a meeting of NATO’s Eastern and Nordic members.

Diplomats say, despite US pressure on their allies to allocate five percent of their GDP to defense costs, NATO countries will try to reach a consensus at their next meeting in Hague in June. The proposal will include direct increase in defense costs to 4.9 percent of GDP and the additional 8.5 % allocation to the needs related to the defensive field, such as dual infrastructure.

Route did not specify that NATO countries would commit a few percent of the cost of GDP, but said this is what is now discussed among our allies. I do not mention the figures right now, but I assure you that the 5 % we agreed on it in year 2 is not enough. This figure will be significantly more than 5 %.

He also announced that all NATO members had reached an agreement on Ukraine membership, but insisted that the position could not be part of the peace talks between Kiev and Moscow.

NATO Secretary -General’s remarks in response to Russia’s request to stop NATO expansion east as one of the conditions of peace.

In the case of Ukraine, in Washington, there was clearly the commitment from the three allies that the Ukrainian membership route in NATO was irreversible. This is not supposed to be accompanied by a specified end date or as part of a peace agreement, but will be a commitment by the two, and we are currently creating this path.

Earlier, Reuters reported quoting three sources as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fundamental requirements for ending the war include a request from Western leaders to submit a written commitment to stop NATO’s expansion east (Ukraine membership in NATO) and the abolition of Russia.

Although many NATO statements have referred to Ukraine membership, the commitment was questioned last February when US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegst called it unrealistic.

“The United States does not believe that Ukraine’s membership in NATO would have been a realistic outcome of a negotiated agreement,” Hegst said on February 7. Instead, any security guarantee must be supported by powerful European and non -European forces. Frankly, no US force will be deployed as part of any security guarantee in Ukraine.

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